Quote - The only issue is that if many of  peoples ideas were implemented, how much would Poser cost?

I think this thread is not about built-in Poser features, but separate addons, like (for example) Wardrobe Wizard, Injection Magic, PoserPhysics or the Unimesh Realims kits. Third-party addons that can be purchased/downloaded separately.

Which of those featuers should be built right into Poser? In my opinion, only a few. What is REALLY needed in Poser is a complete API to all underlying functionality, plus complete wxPython integration. Then third-party developers can create addons that integrate well with Poser.
Even better, if the Poser development team would expose Poser functionality through an externally callable API, it would be possible to integrate Poser into an automated pipeline. If SM is going for "pro", this is a requirement. Anything that cannot be scripted into an automated workflow is not a professional application.
As of this moment, there's a fairly convoluted workaround: PRPC. It's possible to control Poser from an outside application/script using remote procedure calls. Problem is that running multiple scripts parallel within Poser is somewhat flaky, so PRPC-called script cannot do everything that scripts called from within Poser can do.

I've been badgering Curious Labs and e-frontier for this kind of functionality since Poser 5 came out. Unfortunately, to do it right, Poser needs to be rewritten from the ground up, and that could be troublesome (see Newtek/Lightwave).
On the other hand, Poser is built on a codebase that is definitely obsolete. One day, and I think it's not that far off, it will HAVE to be rewritten.
Maybe the full 64 bit version (it might take a couple of years, but 32 bit apps ARE going the way of the MSDOS 16 bits apps) would be the best one for the rewrite.

With every new version of Poser, some people predict doom and gloom and the end of Poser, most of those predictions based on marketing strategies they don't like.
I don't care much for marketing strategy - I look at what the product can do for me. But if the owners of Poser do not plan for a major overhaul and bring Poser to the world of 64 bit computing within the next 5 or 6 years, Poser IS doomed. There won't be an OS that'll run it.

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